Portlets in uPortal

uPortal Domain Objects

• Portlet Application DeploymentPortlet Deployment– Information from portlet.xml file

• Portlet Application DefinitionPortlet Definition– Deployment + Preferences

• Portlet Application EntityPortlet Entity– Definition + Preferences

• Portlet Window– Instances of Portlet Entity painted on screen– Carries Portlet Window State

Portlets in uPortal

uPortal 3.0 Domain Object Architecture

Database

DAO’s

Registries

DAO Implementations e.g. Spring JDBC

Caching

uPortal Framework

Domain objects

Domain objectsTransfer objects

DomainObject

Factories

Portlets in uPortal

uPortal 3.0 Rendering Architecture

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Selects a context toprocess the incomingrequest

Parses request URL andinitiates actions on:•Portlets•Rendering pipeline elements

Generates initial user layout•Aggregated layouts•Simple layouts

Chain of transformers andfilters compiles presentationmarkup.